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<h1>Information on the Plait bot</h1>

<p>Plait is a command line jukebox and music player front-end.  From the
programmer's perspective, it is a script written in Awk and UNIX shell
which acts as a front end to the find, grep, and wget commands.  Users
use it to generate playlists containing audio files and streams and
then submit the playlists to a music player.

<p>The Plait bot (a part of Plait) is an HTML screen scraper which
finds audio streams by accessing the Shoutcast directory.  In order to
respect the Shoutcast terms of service, it observes the following
rule: no content downloaded from the directory is stored permanently
or collected in any way.

<p>The Plait bot does not perform mass downloads.  When a user runs a
Plait command which uses the Plait bot, the process that unfolds is
similar to what would happen if the same user performed a search
manually using the Shoutcast directory.

<p>The Plait bot obeys the robots.txt exclusion protocol.  To prevent
the Plait bot from scraping your site, you could use the following in
robots.txt: <br/>

User-agent: Plait <br/>
Disallow: / <br/>

<p>For more information, including author contact information, see 
<a href="http://plait.sourceforge.net/">The Plait Home Page</a>.

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